How are members of committees and panels chosen?
From a shortlist drawn from suggestions for committee and panel members supplied by the earlier open solicitation for input from the astronomy and astrophysics community (over 300 suggestions were made and considered) as well as suggestions from the Board on Physics and Astronomy, the Space Studies Board, Sections 12 and 13 of the National Academy of Sciences, all committee and appointments are made by the Chair of the National Research Council, Dr. Ralph Cicerone.
